Harville Hendrix and Helen L Hunt interview
One of the clearest statements about the Imago method. Shows the originators are continuing to sharpen the method and theory.
John Gottman – Science of Trust
Enjoying this book because it is packed with little gems, and because I’m devouring anything to do with relationships as I translate it all into psychodrama language and enrich my psychodramatic approach to couples.
Some snippets follow, managing to cut and paste them via sharing with Twitter – I hate that I can’t cut and past from Kindle.
An amazing social network
Facebook vs forums?
http://andrewdouch.wordpress.com
- When students (or I) find a youtube video that we want to share with the group, this can be simply done directly from Youtube by clicking the “share†button under the video as it plays.
- The group can be accessed easily using a mobile device… for example from the iPhone Facebook app (picture right).  On the other hand checking my discussion forum in Safari on an iPhone is nowhere near as elegant.
- Videos and Podcasts on the Facebook group wall play right there in the wall… rather than simply being a link that leads you to another page.  It’s a better user experience.
- When someone posts on the Facebook group wall, all the members of the group get a notification, and since many of them are in Facebook at the time anyway, they get it immediately!  (In contrast, my discussion forum can be set up to send email notifications… but many students don’t check their email very often.)
Howard Rheingold  posted this comment on the article in Facebook:
I require students to post in forums. Twice, when students have created Facebook groups for my social media class, the action there outstripped the action in the forums. The forum discussions were deeper, and older conversations did not disappear when they had not been updated for a few days, and it was easier to index a growing list of threads — students acknowledged that the forums had these superior affordances — but Facebook is where students live. I’m working with a developer to add Facebook features, most notably the badge that
indicates new activity, into the forum software. But I’m also going to create a parallel Facebook group and bounce between the group and the
forums and ask students to compare and contrast. In other words, I’m inclined to agree with this link:Â http://wp.me/pic58-ls
I am thinking we can’t avoid Facebook – and it is a way of paving the cow paths (desire paths) – the trouble is that the desire paths are a toll road. Sad.
Creepy Tree House Effect
Repetition compulsion
It is the core of the psyche, and psychodynamic psychotherapy and I’m impressed how well Freud nailed this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition_compulsion
Sigmund Freud’s use of the concept was ‘articulated…for the first time, in the article of 1914, Erinnern, Wiederholen und Durcharbeiten (‘Remembering, Repeating and Working-Through.'[2] Here he noted how ‘the patient does not remember anything of what he has forgotten and repressed, he acts it out, without, of course, knowing that he is repeating it….For instance, the patient does not say that he remembers that he used to be defiant and critical toward his parents’ authority; instead, he behaves in that way to the doctor’.[3]
I don’t think it is just bad things though. it is something about themes of any kind, patterns repeat. So often what we talk about unconsciously refers to the process of the conversation. Its in the nature of the universe.
My psychodrama thesis is essentially about the broader application of this phenomena. Group and the protagonist.
Open Letter to the DSM-5
I signed the petition. The DSM is a curse that is now getting worse.
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/dsm5/
As we will detail below, we are concerned about the lowering of diagnostic thresholds for multiple disorder categories, about the introduction of disorders that may lead to inappropriate medical treatment of vulnerable populations, and about specific proposals that appear to lack empirical grounding. In addition, we question proposed changes to the definition(s) of mental disorder that deemphasize sociocultural variation while placing more emphasis on biological theory. In light of the growing empirical evidence that neurobiology does not fully account for the emergence of mental distress, as well as new longitudinal studies revealing long-term hazards of standard neurobiological (psychotropic) treatment, we believe that these changes pose substantial risks to patients/clients, practitioners, and the mental health professions in general.
Online counselling and therapy practice
http://gradworks.umi.com/3324818.pdf
Dr. Kristie Holmes – Online Therapy research based on surveys about therapist liability in the usa.
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Tips about privacy on Facebook here.
Mirroring
I want to add a few notes to my recent posts on the mirror in psychodrama
Companioning the protagonist as they are mirrored.
To see how others see you can be a moment of vulnerability.
The director can assume a companion position in the audience, and watch the mirroring together and connect and with the protagonist in that moment.
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Playful Mirroring
I’ve been finding descriptors for kinds of mirroring. Exact, validating. revealing…
I want to add playful to the list
Republic of Letters
The 18th century, more than many, may remind us of our own time. That period was the culmination of what had become known as the “Republic of Letters,” a shared domain of imagination that lasted from 1500 to 1800.
I love the phrase “republic of letters” and I’m surprised I have not head of it before. In the next iteration of my article: Archetypes of Cyberspace I’ll do some more research and add it in.